The son of the U.S. Air Force pilot who dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 in World War II has criticized the U.S. administration for sending a delegation to Fridays ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the bombing, a U.S. TV reported Thursday.

Tibbets, whose father died in 2007 at age 92, said of the administration of President Barack Obama, I know its the anniversary, but I dont know what the hell theyre trying to do. It needs to be left alone. The war is over, FoxNews said.

I know Obama is ignorant of history, shows how much an ivy league education is worth these days, but you'd think someone in his administration would know that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan saved millions of American *and* Japanese lives. Historians agree that an invasion of the Japan home island would have resulted in horrific casualties. There is nothing to apologize for. The loss of civilian lives was regrettable, but so were the millions of Chinese civilians which the Japanese Imperial Army *slaughtered* in genocide (Japan still refuses to admit its guilt on this and apologize), or the hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners tortured, starved and executed, or the tens of thousands of "comfort women" forced to be sex slaves to the Japanese army, etc etc. Moron Obama is playing right into the hands of ultra nationalistic Japanese who will seize on this as confirmation of US "guilt". Obama you truly have no respect for this nation. You are a national disgrace and should be tried for treason!

>Obama, and I very rarely call him Obama, is a total disgrace to this country!

To be totally honest; we as-a-nation probably *deserve* Obama [and those like him] in leadership of our country. What else can you say about a country that sacrifices MILLIONS of its citizens to the god of comfort/convenience? {And, to top it off, prevents the states from protecting those citizens outright.}

>As I recall, he DID bow to the Emperor of Japan!

In that case it was appropriate to bow; in Japan you bow when you meet someone to be polite... however the way he did it was disgraceful and lacking of dignity. {Hell, any “average American” could watch an anime and see how to do it correctly... almost all the “introduce the new boy to the class”-scenes have ‘the bow.’}

>Oh, by the way, I normally call him Bowrama!

Hmmmm....
Bowrama v. Bowman?

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posted on 08/06/2010 8:59:00 PM PDT
by OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)

He’s too busy vacationing to lay a wreath at Arlington on Memorial Day, but he will cruise on over to Japan to apologize for those evil American that dropped atomic bombs on two cities ending the deadliest war in history. This guy is simply not qualified to lead anyone.

I think the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing and the horror of it should be front-and-center every year, with every US President taking a moment on that day to remind the world that if you mess with the US you’ll get yer s**t burned so bad you’ll still be whining and crying about it 65+ years later.

The only “apology” any US President should give for dropping nukes on Japan is “It is regrettable that the only way to stop mid 20th century Japan’s hegemony was to nuke two Japanese cities into smithereens. We hope and pray that it will never be necessary again.”

"Tibbets, whose father died in 2007 at age 92, said of the administration of President Barack Obama, I know its the anniversary, but I dont know what the hell theyre trying to do. It needs to be left alone. The war is over."

Tibbets forgot to add: "And WE won."

Kudos to your dad, Mr. Tibbets

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posted on 08/07/2010 5:13:00 AM PDT
by norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)

Boy ya got me thinking now....I have a friend with a limited edition painting of a B29 morphing into a B-2 with both their signatures. I'll have to go visit him look @ the painting for clues, because both their bio's are on it....

When I was in Japan, thirty some years ago, there were still a small number of Japanese smart enough and honest enough to realize that they owed Paul Tibbets their lives. Among them was my friend “Jimmy”. He figured that he would have died in the invasion. He had been trained to be an antitank weapon. He was to get under an American tank and detonate his satchel charge. Jimmy was eleven when the bombs were dropped. He was just one of the (tens of?)millions of Japanese who were still alive at the end of the war who wouldn’t have been without the bomb.

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posted on 08/07/2010 7:38:51 AM PDT
by magslinger
(DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)

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